Scheme to reel in pot at county jail hits a snag

By David Simpson, for CNN

Updated 10:29 AM ET, Mon August 5, 2013

Pot fishing scheme foiled5 photos

Pot fishing scheme foiled – Three men -- two inmates and a civilian accomplice -- have been charged with Introduction of contraband into the Pinellas County Jail in Florida. The bag and contraband were discovered hanging outside the fourth floor.

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Three men, including alleged outside accomplice, charged with bringing contraband into jail

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It has to be difficult to outfit a fishing expedition when you're in jail.

A pair of incarcerated anglers in Florida had to find a line they could cast six stories down, plus an accomplice outside to put marijuana and tobacco on their hook.

It may have been the alleged accomplice's fault that they had to try to reel in the goodies in a flimsy plastic grocery bag. But all three of them got into trouble when the bag and the contraband were discovered hanging outside the fourth floor of the Pinellas County jail.

The sheriff's office said it charged three men this week with introducing contraband into the jail. The plan, a sheriff's statement said, was for inmates Mark Matthew Keating, 45, and Phillip William Henderson, 38, to drop a nylon rope from the jail's sixth-floor recreation yard.